It is not yet Uhuru for Nigeria when it comes to resolving the rising food crisis in the country, as newly released data from the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC), says increasing flood levels have affected no less than 115, 265 hectares of farmlands In Nigeria.
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The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has reported that devastating floods have claimed 16 lives and destroyed 3,936 homes across the state.
He said river flooding is expected beginning this month, and states likely to be impacted are; Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Adamawa, Benue, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Jigawa, Kogi, Kebbi, Kaduna, Niger, Nasarawa, Ondo, Ogun, Rivers, Taraba and the FCT.
Heavy downpours in many parts of Lagos early Wednesday morning, flooded many streets in Nigeria’s commercial nerve city, making it…
Severe floods have left the residents of Geza community in Kebbi State homeless and in despair.
World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that droughts and floods in southern Africa stemming from El Niño have left millions of people food insecure.
At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern for thousands of refugees and other displaced individuals, who were forced to flee their homes following the downpour.
The death toll from floods and landslides caused by a tropical storm in the Philippines has hit 150, with no…
The Yobe Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says the current massive flood in Bade and Jakusko local government areas is the…